[Chapter-delegates] dormant chapters

[Michiel Leenaars]

Hi all,

> We could focus on a couple of dormant chapters at a time and
> see what we can do to bring them back up to speed.

I think it would be important for ISOC to do standards evangelism
events in countries, with the help of chapters. ISOC should IHMO have a 
global educational agenda, with lots of workshops and masterclasses
organised in countries. If a chapter is present but dormant, that may
give them just a jumpstart to become alive again - or for a new
chapter to be formed. There are really a lot of subjects that would be
worth talking about, here in the Netherlands we have had many speakers
on net security, IPv6, SIP, ENUM, BGP, Manet, but also on W3C subjects
like (e.g. CSS, SVG, XHTML2) and on grid technology etc.

If ISOC would have the infrastructure, the plan and the list of people
willing to give tutorials and masterclasses, sort of a speakers bureau,
the chapters could help organise events decentrally. Now, ISOC is often
seen to be a travelling circus around other peoples events - why not
take advantage of this huge network and enormous intellectual assets
and do something structurally ourselves. 

Best,
Michiel Leenaars
Director ISOC.nl